A Good End To Bad Research

The University of Pennsylvania Head Injury Clinic is a monumental embarrassment to the entire scientific research community and an insult to trusting head-injury patients everywhere.

It would appear that we can all relax now since the university officials have appropriately scolded those naughty little boys at the clinic, but things are seldom what they appear to be.

Evidently U.S. Rep. Rod Chandler, who is heading a congressional inquiry into these experiments, has done his homework, stripped away Penn's glossy veneer coating of this controversy and found some disturbing facts, such as the school's vested interest of $1 million a year of our taxes which are at stake should this facility be closed permanently.

We are grateful to Chandler, the many other concerned congressional members and all the scientists, physicians and veterinarians who also determined this laboratory to be a cruel abomination of research.

Perhaps Dr. Neal D. Barnard, chairman of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said it best! "Given the track record of poor supervision of lab workers, allowing the most glaring abuses of humane care and medical propriety, they should never be trusted with living animals again."